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| name = Santosh Yadav | | name = Santosh Yadav | ||
| image = | | image = The renowned mountaineer, Smt. Santosh Yadav releasing a book ‘Parvatarohan Ka Romanch’, brought by the Publications Division, in New Delhi on September 04, 2008 (cropped).jpg | ||
| caption = | | caption = Yadav in 2008 | ||
| awards = *[[Padma Shri]] Award (2000) | | awards = *[[Padma Shri]] Award (2000) | ||
*[[Tenzing Norgay National Adventure Award]] (1994) | *[[Tenzing Norgay National Adventure Award]] (1994) | ||
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'''Santosh Yadav''' ( | '''Santosh Yadav''' (birth 10 October 1967) is an Indian mountaineer. She is the first woman in the world to climb [[Mount Everest]] twice<ref name=iski>{{cite web|url=http://news.webindia123.com/news/ar_showdetails.asp?id=705110686&cat=&n_date=20070511 |title=Santosh Yadav feels motivated to climb Everest again |publisher=News.webindia123.com |date=2007-05-11 |access-date=2010-06-20}}</ref> and the first woman to successfully climb Mount Everest from [[Kangshung Face]]. She climbed the peak first in May 1992 and then again in May 1993 with an Indo-Nepalese Team. | ||
During her Everest mission of 1992 she saved the life of another climber, Mohan Singh, by sharing oxygen with him. She also tried to help a mountaineer who lay dying at the South Col but was unsuccessful in saving him.<ref>{{Cite book|last=-|first=Beehive|title=Textbook in English for class IX|publisher=Central Board of Secondary Education|year=2006|isbn=81-7450-502-4|location=Publication Division, National Council of Educational Research and Training, Sri Aurobindo Marg, New Delhi 110016|pages=102}}</ref> | During her Everest mission of 1992 she saved the life of another climber, Mohan Singh, by sharing oxygen with him. She also tried to help a mountaineer who lay dying at the South Col but was unsuccessful in saving him.<ref>{{Cite book|last=-|first=Beehive|title=Textbook in English for class IX|publisher=Central Board of Secondary Education|year=2006|isbn=81-7450-502-4|location=Publication Division, National Council of Educational Research and Training, Sri Aurobindo Marg, New Delhi 110016|pages=102}}</ref> | ||
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==Career== | ==Career== | ||
In 1992, Yadav scaled [[Mount Everest]], becoming the youngest woman in the world to achieve this feat. This record was | In 1992, Yadav scaled [[Mount Everest]], becoming the youngest woman in the world to achieve this feat. This record was broken by Malavath Purna(13 years 11 months). Within twelve months, she became a member of an Indo-Nepalese Women's expedition, and scaled Everest the second time, thus setting the record as the first woman to have scaled the Everest twice. Currently she is an officer in the [[Indo-Tibetan Border Police]]. She was a part of the nine-nation international climbing camp-cum-expedition to [[Nun Kun]] in 1989.{{citation needed|date=August 2014}} | ||
Yadav was awarded the [[Tenzing Norgay National Adventure Award|National Adventure Award]] 1994 and [[Padma Shri]] in 2000.<ref name="t1994">{{cite press release|title=National Adventure Awards Announced|url=http://pibarchive.nic.in/archive/ArchiveSecondPhase/EDUCATION/1995-JAN-DEC-MO-YOUTH-AFFAIRS-&-SPORTS-NO-9/PDF/YTH-1995-07-20_034.pdf|publisher=Press Information Bureau, India|access-date=18 September 2020|date=20 July 1995}}</ref><ref name="iski" /> | Yadav was awarded the [[Tenzing Norgay National Adventure Award|National Adventure Award]] 1994 and [[Padma Shri]] in 2000.<ref name="t1994">{{cite press release|title=National Adventure Awards Announced|url=http://pibarchive.nic.in/archive/ArchiveSecondPhase/EDUCATION/1995-JAN-DEC-MO-YOUTH-AFFAIRS-&-SPORTS-NO-9/PDF/YTH-1995-07-20_034.pdf|publisher=Press Information Bureau, India|access-date=18 September 2020|date=20 July 1995}}</ref><ref name="iski" /> | ||
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[[Category:University of Rajasthan alumni]] | [[Category:University of Rajasthan alumni]] | ||
[[Category:20th-century Indian women]] | [[Category:20th-century Indian women]] | ||
[[Category:20th-century Indian people]] | |||
[[Category:Mountain climbers from Haryana]] | [[Category:Mountain climbers from Haryana]] | ||
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